Monster in the Mirror
Scene:
Late at night. A lantern and hand appear, but nothing else. The ensemble walk through the dark library and into the Restricted Section. The lamp is put down, and the cloak removed. Harry and Calla appears.
The teachers all sigh.
Harry: {Reading books} Famous fire eaters...15th Century Fiends...Flamel...Nicholas Flamel...where are you?
Harry picks up a book and opens it. A man's face appears.
Man: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Calla slams the book shuts and puts it back.
“No need to let anyone know what we were looking at,” Calla defended at the looks she was getting.
“The first rule you break with my cloak is sneaking into the library,” James said aghast
“I like the library,” Calla looked offended towards her Father.
“That's my girl,” Lily looked proudly towards her daughter as did Remus.
Filchs voice: Who's there?! {Harry whips around, grabbing his cloak. The lamp falls and shatters.} I know you're in there. You can't hide. {Harry puts on his cloak and creeps around Filch.} Who is it? Show yourself!
Harry runs from the room, breathing heavily. He gets into the hall, where Mrs. Norris is. The cat meows and begins to follow him. Harry and Calla run around a corner, just as Snape and Quirrell appear. Snape pushes Quirrell into the wall.
Quirrell: Severus...I-I thought...
Snape: You don't want me as your enemy, Quirrell.
Quirrell: W-what do you m-mean?
Snape: You know perfectly well what I mean. {Snape senses something. Harry stops breathing while Calla merely controls her own breathing. Snape reaches out to grab something, but doesn't. He whips his finger back in front of Quirrell's face.} We'll have another chat soon...when you've had time to decide where your loyalties lie.
“I am so confused,” Neville whispered
Filch appears, carrying the broken lamp.
Filch: Oh, Professors. I found this, in the Restricted Section. It's still hot. That means there's a student out of bed.
They all dart off.
A door opens, and closes. On the other side, there is a vast, empty room that has a large mirror in the center. Harry appears and walks over to the mirror while Calla hangs back a bit. In it, he sees two people appear.
Harry: Mum? {the woman nods and smiles} Dad? {nods and smiles. Harry reaches out to touch them, but only gets the mirror. Then, his mother puts her hand on his shoulder. He puts his own hand on his own shoulders, as if trying to feel her there. Calla stiffens hearing this when Harry turns and runs away. Calla shuffles forward then flinches backwards upon looking in the mirror. Calla also runs away in a different direction then Harry.
Many people in the room are crying
Scene:
The boys' room. Harry comes whipping in, invisible.
Harry: Ron! You've really got to see this! Ron! You've got to see this! {pulls back covers. Ron wakes up.} Ron, Ron, come on. Get out of bed!
Ron: Why?
Harry: There's something you've got to see. Now, come on!
Scene:
Back in the mirror room. Harry and Ron appear as if magically and Harry runs to the mirror.
Harry: Come on. Come. Come look, it's my parents!
Ron: I only see me.
Harry: {moves over} Look in properly. Go on. Stand there. There. You see them, don't you? That's my dad
Ron: That's me! Only, I'm head boy...and I'm holding the Quidditch cup! And bloody hell, I'm Quidditch Captain too! I look good. Harry, do you think this mirror shows the future?
Those who recognized the mirror winced. This should be private. At least Calla was spared from having to share her deepest desire.
Harry: How can it? Both my parents are dead. {Harry smiles sadly.}
Scene:
Calla is in the forbidden forest and she is running blindly through it.
Suddenly the room began to clamor in worried voices for the girl.
Firenze: I told you it wasn’t safe here
Calla whips around breathing heavily. Still breathing heavily.
Calla: I…I…
“I’ve never heard her stutter,” Ron whispered as the Golden Trio nodded concerned for their fourth member.
FIrenze: Calla breath with me
Calla is sinking to her feet as she falls so does the screen into a…
Flashback:
Thalia: come with me daughter
Nadia follows stiffly; she is around three years old.
Severus leaned forward hoping to find probable cause to arrest her family (original adoptive family).
Nadia: where are we going mother
Thalia: hush, you have an important test today
“She three,” Marlene wrinkled her nose, “and she already had an impressive vocabulary,” Calla was trembling of all the things to show why did it have to be this.
“It wasn’t a vocab test.”.
Thalia turns around and hands Nadia a knife.
The room sucked in a breath. Briar left where she was to be by Calla squeezing her hand to ground her.
Thalia: There is a man in this room. He is a traitor… do as you are trained to do. And do it well your Grandfather will be observing.
Many Aurors and quite a few students (and all the teachers) froze remembering Calla’s past comments about her Grandfather.
Nadia: yes mother
Nadia bowed low before entering the room. The man in front of them is pitiful and young. He can be no older than twenty and he is sobbing having been recently tortured. Ra's Al Ghul also stands beside the man, blood spattering his clothes. He nods to her indicating for her to do as commanded.
Hogwarts provided vomit bags for the numerous people throwing up.
Nadia takes her knife and cleanly and skillfully slit his throat. The man gags looking at her betrayed.
Lily let out a sob, Marlene covered her mouth in shock, James vomited, Sirius and Regulus bowed his head in grief, and Remus squeezed by Calla rubbing her back. His focus entirely on comforting Calla who though trembling appears indifferent.
Ra’s Al Ghul: Dismissed
“I’m going to kill him,” Briar spoke, clenching her hands into fists.
“Don’t please not for me,” Calla whispered
“Fine, I’ll hire someone or ask my moms,” Calla once again shook her head.
“He's mine,” Calla said, chilling, making the rest of the room freeze in shock.
Nadia exits blank faced. Thalia guides her back to her room and begins to wash the blood off her hands.
Thalia: You have done well Nadia. You are the first to receive a kill. You should be honored
“Honored,” Harry spat in outrage for his sister.
“Yes,” Calla once again froze the room, “I earned quite a bit that day,”
“What could you have possibly earned from that,” Molly waved her arms around hysterically.
“The right to live,”
Nadia: Mother… (her lip wobbled) he was my friend
Once again the room wept for Calla.
Thalia: that is why he died do not make the same mistake again
“What how could she say that she made you kill…” Lily started before Calla cut her off.
“It was my mistake. We were friends. Friends are weaknesses. Weaknesses must be terminated,” Calla pointed out
“How did you survive,” Regulus asked, doing his best to keep a cool head.
“Constant Vigilance,” Calla answered, her lip quirking into a smile.
With that Thalia whipped the last of the blood and left
End Flashback
Scene:
Firenze: Breath Calla
Calla’s breathing begins to even.
Firenze: what happened
Calla: I saw… it never happened I wasn’t…
Firenze: what happened Calla what did you see
Calla: … I wasn’t a monster
“You will always be a monster,” Umbridge sneered at the girl in front of her. The room shouted in outrage while Calla fell silent.
Scene:
Another night. Harry is sitting in front of the mirror. Dumbledore appears behind him.
Dumbledore: Back again, Harry? {Harry turns around and stands up.} I see that you, like so many before you, have discovered the delights of the Mirror of Erised. I trust by now you realize what it does. Let me give you a clue. The happiest man on earth would look into the mirror and see only himself, exactly as he is.
Harry: So, then it shows us what we want? Whatever we want?
Dumbledore: Yes...and no. It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desires of our hearts. Now you, who have never known your family, you see them standing beside you. But remember this, Harry. This mirror gives us neither knowledge or truth. Men have wasted away in front of it, even gone mad. That is why tomorrow it will be moved to a new home, and I must ask you not to go looking for it again. It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live. {Harry looks back at the mirror.}
The room kept on weeping as it began to rain on the ceiling in the Great Hall.
Scene:
With the word forget to live it cuts to Calla back in the forest she is standing amongst Centaurs. They are teaching her archery.
The room blinked in shock. Still reeling far too much from what they had seen to form the words to question what's in front of them.
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Scene:
Daytime. It is all snowy. Harry is out in a main courtyard, bundled up, with Hedwig on his arm. He stops and she lifts off, soaring away into the sky. When she returns, it is spring time.